I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good
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alt_justinHullo, all,
I think if we're to endure these Saturday formal suppers from now to the end of term, we'd best get some permanent supplies into the secret room, so we can all have quite a hearty luncheon and not go hungry.
I say, I tried to get Smith and Bobolis not to tuck in so greedily, but it was difficult with the seating what it was.
I nearly fell asleep listening to that speaker, what?
But I wanted to tell you all that Susan, Hydra and I went up to the hospital wing this morning to look in on Megan and see if we could get her to tell us anything more about what happened last night. It started off well enough--she really was rather pathetically pleased to have visitors, what--but just as we were settling in to a comfortable chat, a card, a vase of pink flowers and a box appeared on her bedside table. Susan helped Megan open the card and the box; there was a new badge inside for Megan. The card was--well, it was the sort of get-well card one might send to a distant niece on hearing she's broken her arm or something. Bally well perfunctory, what. And the less said about the badge the better.
But Megan's whole face transformed and she said to Sue, 'You see?' and then she refused to say anything more than small talk. We did linger a while, not wishing to be rude, but it was bally well clear she had no intention of giving anything away after that arrived.
She had the decency to ask after Fawcett. We told her that she's missing, of course, and presumably was brought to harm in the Forbidden Forest. I say, she rather blanched at that, and quite rightly, too.
-Justin
I think if we're to endure these Saturday formal suppers from now to the end of term, we'd best get some permanent supplies into the secret room, so we can all have quite a hearty luncheon and not go hungry.
I say, I tried to get Smith and Bobolis not to tuck in so greedily, but it was difficult with the seating what it was.
I nearly fell asleep listening to that speaker, what?
But I wanted to tell you all that Susan, Hydra and I went up to the hospital wing this morning to look in on Megan and see if we could get her to tell us anything more about what happened last night. It started off well enough--she really was rather pathetically pleased to have visitors, what--but just as we were settling in to a comfortable chat, a card, a vase of pink flowers and a box appeared on her bedside table. Susan helped Megan open the card and the box; there was a new badge inside for Megan. The card was--well, it was the sort of get-well card one might send to a distant niece on hearing she's broken her arm or something. Bally well perfunctory, what. And the less said about the badge the better.
But Megan's whole face transformed and she said to Sue, 'You see?' and then she refused to say anything more than small talk. We did linger a while, not wishing to be rude, but it was bally well clear she had no intention of giving anything away after that arrived.
She had the decency to ask after Fawcett. We told her that she's missing, of course, and presumably was brought to harm in the Forbidden Forest. I say, she rather blanched at that, and quite rightly, too.
-Justin
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Date: 2013-04-21 04:03 am (UTC)I make sure it's all stuff that is within the rules. So she won't get scared about it or something. Like I told her she could practise her Patronus on her own, because it was something she'd learned outside the classroom, so it wasn't forbidden.
And I still don't want her to fail her OWLs.
I don't think
Sometimes, when people are told over and over again that things are the way they are, it's hard to see that there's any other way.
I called the person who murdered my parents my Father for years without thinking twice about it.
Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 04:20 am (UTC)Sorry. Maybe that doesn't help to tell you that.
You all right, then?
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 04:33 am (UTC)And last night was brill.
Um.
Was it okay? I sort of
you know
Was it okay?
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 04:40 am (UTC)I mean, last night was brilliant! We got Fawcett out and you rubbished Umbridge's office and the twins put up the most amazing diversion of all diversions ever.
But I'm not sure what you mean...
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 04:42 am (UTC)Well, I guess we'll see how that goes, yeah?
I mean, he seems...
I dunno.
Is he going to explode all over everything?
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 04:49 am (UTC)It's okay.
I talked to Hydra and Pans, when I first joined, and they said this was important. That it helped them. So I think this will help him too.
He'll keep his secrets. He just needs time. Because this is really, really different.
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 04:50 am (UTC)Well.
I sort of made a lot of decisions. And told people what to do. And I know I'm new on this, and it belongs to everyone not just me, and
Was that okay?
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 05:01 am (UTC)I mean, I think last night we needed to all be working together, and it was good we weren't all shouting a dozen different things at each other. We sort of needed someone to make decisions and say who should go where.
And it'd be different if you'd got it all wrong and sent people to do stuff they weren't good at, but you didn't. You know a lot of us pretty well. And I guess part of it is how well we know each other, the rest of us, I mean.
But it was like a CCF exercise last night, and we know how those go. They go best if one person makes the decisions. And we all know you're good at those, so it was all right. Better than.
You're pretty much a natural at that, y'know?
But you're not like some people. Zabini, say. Or Patil. Or Umbridge. Who like people to jump because they say so, so they say jump for no reason except to see people doing it when they say. Does that make sense? You don't make it about orders. Or, well. You don't make it about you.
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 05:16 am (UTC)Yeah.
It sort of was like the CCF, wasn't it?
Re: Private Message to Harry
Date: 2013-04-21 05:25 am (UTC)